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Data valid as at 00:00 GMT January 4th 2022.

47,173 new cases for Australia (a new record) and 4 deaths so the CMR is 0.415%.

NZ recorded 59 cases and 0 deaths for a CMR of 0.355%.

The UK recorded 218,705 cases and 48 deaths for a CMR of 1.092%.

980,103 new cases in the USA yesterday and 1,642 deaths sees CMR at 1.480%. That’s >400k more cases than the previous high last week.

Other notable points:
Global cases pass 295M, the last 3M in 1 day – the fastest ever;
Global cases set a new record daily high with 2,105,687 recorded;
Europe sets a new daily high with 1,092,014 cases recorded;
Europe passes 90M cases;
North America passes 68M cases and 1.25M deaths;
South America passes 40M cases;

Guyana (485);
Mauritania (825);
Suriname (745);
French Guiana (960);
Burkina Faso (1,005);
Cabo Verde (1,025);
Aruba (1,028);
Iceland (1,130);
Mayotee (1,939)
Channel Islands (2,517);
Montenegro (2,590);
Dominican Republic (3,700);
DRC (4,481);
Cyprus (5,457);
Réunion (9,358) – almost twice the previous high;
Denmark (23,372);
Australia (47,173);
Greece (50,126);
Argentina (81,210) – 30K above the previous high;
Italy (170,844);
France (271,686); and
The USA (980,103)

... recorded new highs; those in blue for the second consecutive day and those in red for a third or more consecutive day.

Uruguay, Lithuania, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Sweden, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Morocco and Austria move above the 90th percentile for the 10 day period and South Africa drops below.

We are still waiting for 2 countries in North America (Costa Rica, Honduras) to report data for 31st December before doing the annual summary.